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117

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This page is about the year 117 of the Julian calendar .

Events

Massacre of the Jews of Cyrene and Egypt under Trajan.

A general insurrection broke out in Mesopotamia : the Tigris Seleucia , Nisibis , Edessa hunt their garrisons, a Roman legion is completely destroyed. Trajan represses the movement, but must make concessions. Without waiving its annexations in Mesopotamia , it restores a kingdom fell into Parthian territory under Roman suzerainty.
The Jews of Cyprus are allowed to stay on the island.
Failure of the siege of Hatra Syria by Trajan.
Trajan on his deathbed, adopt Hadrian and designated as his heir. He died in Selinus of Cilicia during his return from the war in the East during his reign, the Roman Empire reached its maximum geographical extent.

The various Germanic peoples nibble away at the territories of the Celtic history and contact with the Romans, who called this land of Germany (according to Tacitus). This map compares chronologically expansion, up 300 , with that of the Roman Empire , until 117.

August 11 : Start of reign of Hadrian , Roman Emperor (late in 138 ).
- Hadrian , Spanish as Trajan , is an excellent officer who has made a brilliant career. This is especially a grown man and a director who inaugurated a civilian government, abandoning the policy of conquest of his predecessor to consolidate the empire.
- Hadrian sign a treaty with the Parthians and abandoned Mesopotamia , the Armenian and Assyrian to restore peace to the borders of the empire.
- The great officers of Trajan , opposed to this policy will undermine the "conspiracy of Consular and will be executed 118.

Repeated attacks Sarmatians provoke an uprising of the Dacians subject (117 - 118 ).
Flowers from Palmyra , which trade with Lower Mesopotamia and Rome.
The historian Roman Tacitus publishes the Annals, a history of Rome from the death of Octavian Augustus.
Tax collection replaces Rome farming.
St. Ignatius was thrown to the beasts as Christian (or 107 ).
Commencement of construction of the Odeon of Lyons (117 - 132 ).
Construction of the basilica Plotina of Nimes (117 - 138 ).